In 2018, UNESCO added an ensemble of Sassanian historical cities in southern Iran -- titled “Sassanid Archaeological Landscape of Fars Region”-- to its World Heritage list. Eight archaeological sites ...

The serial property Sassanid Archaeological Landscape of the Fars Region is composed of 8 selected archaeological site components in three geographical area contexts at Firuzabad, Bishapur and ...

The design of a flying bird, four swords and daggers and a shield was carved on one of the graves of this ... Tourism Organization has recently been granted the ownership of this Sassanid Fort, a very ...

Provincial authorities of Cultural Heritage Organization have been quoted as saying that they work on preparing the files for Sassanid monuments in the province. Firouzabad and Sarvestan host these ...

Sassanid era expert Yusef Moradi said on Monday that studies show that the thirty-two kings of the Sassanid dynasty wore over one hundred different crowns and that each king wore several crowns during ...

Tourism and 06 July 2010 TEHRAN -- Ruins of a fire temple dating back to the Sassanid era have recently been discovered during a series of archaeological excavations in the Vigol region near Kashan in ...

Sitting astride the trade routes to the east, the Sassanid court was fabulously opulent, and the empire was dynamic and efficiently run. The military was equally efficient and dangerous ...

The Battle of al-Qadisiyah was fought in Mesopotamia — in present-day Iraq — in the A.D. 630s between Arab Muslims and the army of the Sassanid Persian dynasty during a period of Muslim expansion.